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es·sen·tial·ism (-iz′əm)

noun

Philos. a theory which stresses indispensable conceptual characteristics and relations of things as opposed to existence as particular experienced actuality

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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